Lib Preso Apr 2008

Online Resources Half Hollow Hills PTA Education Committee April 4, 2008

Today’s Presenters Diane Bishop, Candlewood Diane Calise, West Hollow Corinne Carriero, Instructional Technology Debbie Castiglia, Otsego Barbara Drayer, High School East Ralph DiCicco, High School West Linda Lennon, Sunquam

Today’s Agenda
Online Book and Materials Catalog
Selected Subscription Databases
Tumblebooks
World Book online
AP Photo Archives
Brain-Pop
GaleNet

Web-based Materials Catalog Diane Calise, West Hollow

What is Destiny
A completely web based automated system
Accessible from any computer at school or at home, with Internet access

Searching Destiny
Keyword
Title
Author
Subject and series
Advanced search

Destiny is image-rich
Book covers pictured in search list
Selecting the title, displays valuable information
copies available locally (within school)
description of the book
book’s reading and interest level, etc

Features
Destiny suggestions other subjects related to selected book
Users can create citation list of book selections for a work-cited page
Users can create a bibliography created from a booklist with a touch of one button
Teachers can create an online resource list of materials for students’ use

TumbleBooks Linda Lennon, Sunquam

TumbleBooks.com
Online collection of books to encourage reading
www.tumblebooks.com
username: hhh password: books
Language Options - English, French, Spanish
Picture Books, Story Books, Audio Books

World Book Online Debbie Castiglia, Otsego

Online Encyclopedia
“ Meets the highest standards of editorial excellence while keeping pace with the technological developments that define the computer age”
22 volume set and more right at the click of a mouse
Information, pictures, maps,and websites

AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive Diane Bishop, Candlewood

Subscription Service
Associated Press Multimedia Archive:
1,000,000+ Photos 1826-today
10,000s Graphics
4500 hrs Audio Clips: 1920s-today
Text: captions for photos and clips
Correlations
Content connected NY State Standards
K - 12

Brain Pop Barbara Drayer, HS East

Brain Pop
Engaging, animated content that motivates and inspires children to learn, addressing different learning styles.
Friendly, dialogue and tone for children
Closed caption available

Brain Pop
BrainPOP movies cover all academic areas
Science
Math
English
Social Studies
Health
Technology
Arts and Music

Gale Student Resource Center Ralph DiCicco, HS West

Gale’s Student Resource Center
Content from premium Gale Reference materials (scholarly research)
Over 11 million articles
Over 1,100 full-text periodicals and newspapers
Primary sources, creative works, and multimedia

Search types
Basic
Advanced (allows Boolean operators)
Topic Trees
Publication
Curriculum standards

Cross-Searchable
With six other databases in NY’s NOVEL database collection (for over 83 million articles):
Custom Newspapers
NY State Newspapers (including The New York Times)
Health Reference Center Academic
Informe (Spanish language)
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Business & Company ASAP

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